El alcalde de Zalamea
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Peter N. Dunn (Editor, Writer of introduction, Writer of added commentary)
One of the best known and most represented works of the Golden Age of Spanish literature, because of its effective structure, the strength of its vigorous characters (the proud farmer Pedro Crespo , the no less stubborn Don Lope de Figueroa , historical hero of the Tercios de Flanders ...) and its excellent versification. It falls within baroque literature and is classified at the same time as a comedy of villains or villains and a drama of honor. It tries to reflect the concerns of the Modern Age about justice and the dignity of the individual , which emanate from God, against political power and military jurisdiction. Also confronting the sense of honor (individual and family) and the estate (social) honor of a self-made man like Pedro Crespo, who takes justice into his own hands when he is appointed mayor and therefore civil judge against the esprit of corps of the military jurisdiction or military jurisdiction, represented by Lope de Figueroa, Álvaro de Ataide y Rebolledo, and the decadent rural nobility represented by the poor hidalgo Don Mendo
Print Book, Spanish, [1966]
Pergamon Press, Oxford, [1966]